Tag Archives: spring

Lending Strength

Posted on April 3, 2010 by K

It’s been a long, dreary spring. We had snow on the ground yesterday. More coming next week.  When the planet itself wraps you up in gray, the light has to come from other places.  And earthly angels—one of my favorite … Continue reading →

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~in just spring

Posted on May 11, 2009 by K

There was a time in my life when I believed in magic. (If you read this out loud, you must say the word – say “magic”—very softly, as though you are breathing it, and feeling the touch softly on your … Continue reading →

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Spring color

Posted on May 10, 2009 by K

——=0=——     The tiny harbinger flowers, so delicate – but surprisingly decorated.  Snowdrops are like this too, but white with a delicate stroke of green.  They’d be gaudy if they were any larger, eh?  Years ago – no.  Decades ago, … Continue reading →

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Saturday

Posted on April 25, 2009 by K

HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 16, 2009 by K

First of all, may I tell you that after all that snow yesterday, the sun came out and melted it all?  We went to bed looking forward to more spring, which we thought would come bounding back today.  Ummm.  At … Continue reading →

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Oh, what a diff a day can make –

Posted on April 15, 2009 by K

First: here’s what the Rachel bunny brought us for Easter –   Yesterday: TODAY: Something about April being the cruelest month?

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first spring –

Posted on April 11, 2009 by K

I always wait till there’s not enough light to shoot decently by, and then neither one of these wiggly people will hold still enough.  But you really do have to shoot forsythia in spring – it’s heart-healthy.  Traditionally, I shoot … Continue reading →

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Aa soo: Spring

Posted on March 31, 2009 by K

This was a week ago Sunday. The lovely Chaz.  Still up for negotiation. Fresh from church. Woman with butterfly sleeves and jonquil. Woman in freezing cold, standing up after several moments of crouching with flower.  Legs locked. This is an … Continue reading →

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There be Eagles here

Posted on March 31, 2008 by K

March 30, 2008             Yesterday, M and his near-brother, Brennan, received their Eagle Scout awards.  Brennan’s mom, who is as close to blood sister to me as you can get without the blood part—and scout advancement chairman in the ward—set … Continue reading →

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Why the Chinese Prize Sons

Posted on March 25, 2008 by K

Though we have run dry of Easter egg hunters, we have no shortage of people who eat breakfast. And while the eggs we peeled for Easter morning were only white as snow and brown as earth, they tasted just like … Continue reading →

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